I consider it not forfeiture of your vote but delegation of your vote to the voting electorate, and implicit endorsement of their choice.

Which makes it a lot more than half the country.

Have you voted in every primary and general election since you were eligible?

I have, for example, and I'm old. I don't judge people for not following my lead. I suppose you do.

Voting is compulsory in my country, so yes I have.

I only judge abstainers inasmuch as I judge anyone who directly votes for an outcome I don’t like. No more, no less.

> just like any built-in property would be

Nit: only inherited properties are inherited.

For example color and font-family are, while padding and background-color are not.

One of the special rules you kind of just need to get a feel for that makes CSS a little inscrutable to those who don’t practise it every day.

Yes! Occasionally I try to get it to do something labor-saving for me in a doc or sheet, and every single time “I’m sorry, I can’t do that”

As far as I can tell Gemini in gsuite can do nothing other than summarise text and regular LLM q&a (but with Gemini’s perennially sad, apologetic persona)

Sometimes I feel like I live in a parallel universe to these guys who see value in things like this.

Where my life is mundane shit that most of the time I don’t even need the current generation of tech anywhere near. Walking the dog. Playing with and looking after my kids. Everyday conversations and intimacy with my wife. Barbecues with friends. Work.

And these guys lives are just working out, coding, and cooking on-trend dishes with expensive cookware, all to be relentlessly optimised.

An effective targeted ad platform is also expensive to develop and keep current.

They either build something as effective and invasive as what Google and Meta have, and prioritise ad revenue as much as those companies do.

Or they stay closer to the ineffective ad network they already have in News, App Store, etc, neither putting their money where their cultural mouth is nor becoming an ad revenue behemoth.

Presumably you don't have to do much targeting with Maps.

If I do a search for coffee shops, it doesn't take much targeting to figure out I'm interested in coffee shops. Same with pizza or grocery store or gas station.

For Maps search results, I expect the revenue will be plenty effective without having to be "invasive" at all.

True

Early 30s is the sweet spot for travel.

You have the budget and growing maturity to experience things a 20 year old backpacker can’t, and the body, freedom, and tolerance for discomfort for experiences that won’t happen if you wait until you’re 40 or have kids.

It’s a waste to only allow week-long sugar hit breaks from work over the next decade to experience it. Decide now when you’ll take six to twelve months to travel without working.

> Take pictures of yourself and what you're doing. I wish I had more.

Seconded. Taking yourself out of the moment to take photos gets a bad rap, but do it.

Not to share on social media now, but to build a memory bank for later.

How is holding the world accountable going with everyone consuming the news and social media firehose for the last decade?

Why do YouTube creators deserve special treatment compared to any other entity whose analytics are impacted by adblockers?

Every publisher on the internet has been bleating for years about how adblockers negatively impact their business and their ability to provide [some value] to customers.

If your ability to generate value is hitched to surveillance capitalism then that’s a choice, whether you’re a folksy mom and pop YouTube creator or a multinational publisher.

I don't think the parent implies that. Advertising has destroyed a lot of value, YouTube or otherwise. But you can either push the equilibrium in a (imo) productive direction by paying your creators (via subscriptions) or continue to attack the symptom of the problem (ads) while everything shittifies further around you. That's the choice.

You can’t get a loan for a used car in the US?

This is pretty common in Australia. All of the banks offer car loans or “personal loans”